Cossacks: The Art of War Update v1.2817:19:16 Friday, 21 December 2001This patch (v1.28) addresses the following bugs:

AI bug on large maps (AI developed poorly and did not build mines on the largest maps).

AI updated for many nations (Ways of AI development have been optimized for all the nations, but for Algeria, Austria, Ukraine and Turkey).

A string of game recording bugs (Frequent crashes, wrong victory-defeat messages brought on while viewing).

Game crash-bugs.

The patch contains the following game innovations:

Increased game cheating protection (F3 problem etc).

Automatic clan registration system.

Clan membership check.

Restrictions on menu viewing and Alt+Tab pressing in multiplayer. You can look through the menu for no longer, than 20-25 seconds.
Also, in case Alt+Tab is pressed or some other application is switched on, player must return to the game not later than in 10 seconds.